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On Trey Songz's App, Fans Send Him 'Virtual' Bottles of Champagne and Imaginary Chocolates

Many music fans won't even spend 99 cents on a download. So why do so many pay $3.99 to send Trey Songz a virtual bottle of champagne and some imaginary chocolates? Santa Monica-based company Handmade Mobile Entertainment created an app called The Angel Network, an online fan club and social netwo ... More >>

The Time David Lee Roth Abandoned His Plymouth Valiant to Rot

By Michael Wilton See also: *Van Halen's Babysitter: The band's record label assigned Ted Cohen to go on tour with them in their glory years. Here's what he saw *Van Halen's 1980 Tour Rider: Why They Demanded The Brown M&Ms Be Picked Out For our music feature this week we spoke with Ted Cohen, a ... More >>

Van Halen's Babysitter

The band's record label assigned Ted Cohen to go on tour with them in their glory years. Here's what he saw

Still a Malcontent

A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off!

Hollywood Websites Attacked by Anonymous Hackers in Wake of Megaupload Bust, SOPA Support

Hollywood might be on the offensive when it comes to limiting your internet freedom (via the controversial and moribund Stop Online Privay Act), but it appeared to be against the ropes today following the U.S. Justice Department's takedown of file storage sight Megaupload at the behest of the conten ... More >>

Kyuss Lives: Five Reasons To Embrace The Group Without Josh Homme

Between 1988 and 1995, desert-rockers Kyuss made a valiant effort to save rock 'n' roll. The band's mixture of Black Sabbath-style riffs and a laid-back desert attitude helped them establish the genre of stoner rock. Though not a commercial success at the time, their shadow looms large over rock and ... More >>

"Freeway" Ricky Ross Slaps Fake Rick Ross with a New Lawsuit

"Freeway" Ricky Ross vs. Rapper Rick Ross: Who would you put money on? ​He thinks he's Big Meech! Larry Hoover! But Miami rapper Rick Ross might be blowing money fast in court, not in the club, soon if he keeps calling himself the moniker he adopted from "Freeway" Ricky Ross, the Los Angeles ... More >>

Ximena Sariñana Premieres Songs from Forthcoming Sophomore Album at Mucho Wednesdays

Ivan Fernandez​To those unfamiliar with Mexican singer/actress Ximena Sariñana, it will come as a shock to know that the appearance of such a tiny, unimposing figure such as herself could set a record for a capacity crowd at La Cita in downtown LA. Hundreds of dedicated fans stood in line a f ... More >>

Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

The Last Days of Disco

A new book provides an inside look at the drug-fueled hedonism at Casablanca Records

Too Much Joy's Sorry Tale of Warner Bros. and Royalties

Tim Quirk is the Vice President of music programming for Rhapsody, the online music download and streaming service. But he's also the former founder, guitarist and singer for Too Much Joy, an 80s/90s band perhaps best known for its courageous stance against censorship when 2 Live Crew was arrested i ... More >>

Boxes in Flux: Where the Action Is!

Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?

The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul

Two of the iconic Southern California artist's classic compositions, Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money, will get the grand reissue treatment

It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practicality. It is about obsession and possession and most of all object fetish.

Agency Nonsense and Greedy Big Media

Hollywood is kryptonite to Super Agents and Superman

Perez in the Springtime

Faghagdom; tattoo this; the other Hilton; man-mash Friday

Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Czech and Double-Czech

Antonin Dvorák's Sixth Symphony and Léos Janácek Taras Bulba and In the Mist

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

Looking on the Dark Side

Season of the Pitch

Labor’s Hollywood summer programming

Naa Na Na Na Naa

How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

Grokster Bites the Dust! Ho-hum

At least Modest Mouse got name-dropped in a Supreme Court case

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

Goldberg Flies Air America

Music-biz biggie pilots a new radio hit

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

The Story in the Soil

The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound

Juvee Delinquents

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Pope on Hope

Los Angeles: June, 2002

A semi-comic fantasy about an aspect of the future that may prove pertinent to L.A.

The Year In Music

The Nine Lives of Rave

Pop Sensation Dot-com

Dumped by your label? Start designing your Web site

Independent Music’s Right to Fight

The record industry sued Napster and has just inhaled MP3.com. Is there a future for music on the Internet? Analog Pussy thought so... Then they got a scary e-mail...

Shards

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

Was It Good for You Too?

Who got screwed when Time-Warner jumped into bedwith AOL?

Inger Lorre, Patron Saint of Fucked-over Musicians

Downloading the Future

The MP3 Revolution — the End of the Industry as We Know It